HARRISBURG, Pa. — One of two suspects indicted in a conspiracy to sell counterfeit woodblocks will serve more than four years in prison after pleading guilty in U.S. Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, U.S. attorney Gerard M. Karam announced Tuesday.
Xylography is the art of making “woodcuts,” or engravings made from wooden blocks, especially for printing using historical techniques, Karam said. In traditional xylography, an artist uses a sharpened tool to carve a design into the surface of a woodblock. The raised areas that remain after the block has been cut are inked and printed, while the recessed areas that are cut away do not retain ink and will remain blank in the final print.
The buyers included a pair of woodblock collectors in France, as well as a buyer of a woodblock print who then resided in Hummelstown. In one email, for instance, Washington, using the alias “River Seine,” claimed to be selling “original printing blocks from the 16th and 17th centuries," according to Karam.
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